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Higher Levels of Fitness Linked to Executive Function and Brain Activity in Older Adults
The aging process is associated with declines in brain function, including memory and how fast our brain processes information, yet previous research has found that higher levels of cardiorespiratory fitness in older adults leads to better executive function in the brain, which helps with reasoning and problem solving. Higher cardiorespiratory fitness levels have also been found to increase brain volume in key brain regions.
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Researchers find key to keep working memory working
Yale researchers’ discovery of a key molecule in the brain could lead to potential treatments for neurocognitive disorders like schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s.
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To Pay Attention, the Brain Uses Filters, Not a Spotlight
A brain circuit that suppresses distracting sensory information holds important clues about attention and other cognitive processes.
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Child Born 'Without Brain' Learns To Count And Surf
If doctors said that aborting an unborn child would be the best option for everyone, most people would listen and take their advice. Especially if they were told not once, not twice, but five times to have the procedure.Shelley and Rob Wall were advised to have an abortion after finding out that their baby had no brain as it wasn’t developing correctly. However, they stuck to their guns and decided to keep the baby. Six years on, he is appearing on national television on Good Morning Britain. Watch the clip below.
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How does the brain learn by talking to itself?
UNIGE scientists uncover the role of synaptic feedback systems in shaping learning processes in the brain’s cortex — a discovery that may prove valuable for developing efficient artificial intelligence. Human beings, like other animals, possess an enormous learning capacity that allows for the apprehension of new sensory information to master new skills or to adapt to an ever-changing environment.
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Scientists have reversed brain damage in a U.S. toddler who drowned in her family swimming pool
In what is believed to be a world first, scientists have reversed brain damage in a toddler that drowned in a swimming pool. Using oxygen therapy, scientists were able to restore her ability to walk and talk just months after the accident, in which she spent 15 minutes submerged in a swimming pool and two hours where her heart did not beat on its own.
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New Study Suggests Our Understanding of Brain Cells Is Flawed, and Here's Why
A new study has found evidence that a section of our neurons, called the dendrites, aren't the passive receivers we've always assumed them to be.
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Why our brains may be 100 times more powerful than believed
A new study out of UCLA has found that one part of the neurons in our brains are more active than previously revealed. The finding implies that our brains are both analog and digital computers and could lead to better ways to treat neurological disorders.
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